Jacob Werber

Jacob Werber
Born(1859-02-04)4 February 1859
Brody, Austrian Empire
Died20 August 1890(1890-08-20) (aged 31)
Writing career
LanguageHebrew
Years active1874–1890

Jacob Werber (Hebrew: יעקב ווערבער, romanized: Ya'akov Verber; 4 February 1859 – 20 August 1890) was a Galician Jewish editor and writer.

Biography

Jacob Werber was born in Brody, Galicia in 1859, the only son of Barukh Werber. His father was a Hebrew scholar who, from 1865, published the Hebrew-language weekly Ha-Ivri [he] (known also as Ivri Anokhi; its title alternated for tax reasons). By age 15 Werber could read and speak Hebrew fluently, and in 1874 he published the novelette "Galgal ha-Ḥozer ba-Olam" in his father's periodical. He also wrote articles on natural science for Ha-Maggid (1875, 1876) and Ha-Tzfirah (1876).

Upon the death of his father in 1876, Werber became the editor of Ha-Ivri. He was a member of the Brody relief committee during the wave of pogroms in 1881–2. Werber contracted a severe illness in 1890 and died shortly thereafter, at the age of 31. Before his death he wrote his own obituary, which appeared in the last number of Ha-Ivri three days before his death.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Ochser, Schulim (1906). "Jacob Werber". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 502.

  1. ↑ Sokolow, Nahum, ed. (1893). "Ya'akov Verber". Ha-Asif (in Hebrew). 6. Warsaw: 140.
  2. ↑ Margoshes, Joseph (2008) [1936]. A World Apart: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century Galicia. Translated by Margolis, Rebecca; Robinson, Ira. Boston: Academic Studies Press. pp. 34–35. ISBN 978-1-934843-10-9. OCLC 769188622.
  3. ↑ Manekin, Rachel (2006). "Die hebräische und jiddische Presse in Galizien". In Rumpler, Helmut; Urbanitsch, Peter (eds.). Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918 (in German). Vol. VIII. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences. pp. 2341–2365. ISBN 978-3-7001-3568-5. OCLC 920544.
  4. ↑  Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Periodicals". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
  5. ↑ Kuzmany, Börries (2017). Brody: A Galician Border City in the Long Nineteenth Century. Studia Judaeoslavica. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-33484-7.